Re: [Asrg] Its all over for Challenge Response

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes at waltdnes.org>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:08:44AM -0800, Bob Atkinson wrote

> Asking me to choose between a 24.4 kbps dialup (my phone lines are poor
> quality) and a 750 Mbps broadband is only offering a false choice. My
> ISP owns me, body and soul. And I'm by no means alone in that situation;
> there are millions of others.
> 
> > > Indeed, that is the situation for me personally: I'm stuck with my
> > > cable provider, whether I like them or not, and that's unlikely to
> > > change for decades (my property boundary is a telco central office
> > > boundary, so DSL will never come).
> > 
> > How do they prevent you from having an email account elsewhere?
> 
> They prevent it because they own the filtering behavior on outbound
> email (port 25 or whatever). They can and do deny or allow me to engage
> with other mail addresses entirely at their whim. Concretely, I've been
> cut off entirely twice in the last two-ish years.

  Haven't you ever heard of smtp-submit (port 587) or ssh-tunneling or a
web interface to email at another ISP ?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
Email users are divided into two classes;
1) Those who have effective spam-blocking
2) Those who wish they did

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